Privacy Policy

Last updated: 5 November 2026

This website uses no analytics, tracking or advertising services. YouTube videos load only when you start them. We process personal data only as far as it is needed to run the website and to answer your enquiries.

Controller

The controller responsible for data processing on this website is:

Johann Schopplich
Paul-Gruner-Str. 38
04107 Leipzig
Germany

Email: johann@schopplich.com

Visiting the Website

When you visit this website, your browser necessarily sends data to the server, including your IP address, the requested address, the page you came from (referrer) and details about your browser and operating system. The server needs this data to deliver the page to you. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in a secure and working website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

The website runs on a server of Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany, in a data centre in Germany. The server keeps no log of page visits. Only when an error occurs while delivering a page does it write an entry to an error log: date and time, IP address, the requested domain and request, the previous page if any and the error message. We use it to fix errors and fend off attacks; it is deleted automatically after 30 days.

You are not obliged to provide us with any data. Without the connection data, however, the website cannot be displayed.

Storage on Your Device

When you visit the website, we set no cookies and store nothing on your device. We serve fonts and scripts ourselves, not through third-party providers.

Your browser stores locally (local storage) whether you see the light or dark design, so that your choice persists on your next visit. This setting never leaves your device. This storage is strictly necessary for the function you requested (Section 25(2) No. 2 TDDDG, the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act).

Cookies or similar technologies only come into play when you start a video. The details are in the following sections.

Links to other websites are ordinary links. Only when you click one does your browser connect to the other website; its own privacy policy applies there.

YouTube Videos

Our website shows videos hosted on YouTube. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Your browser loads a video's preview image from a YouTube image server (i.ytimg.com) when you open the page. Google receives your IP address, the address of our page and details about your browser; this image server sets no cookies. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in showing you a preview of the video (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Only when you click “Play video” does your browser load the YouTube player. We embed it through the youtube-nocookie.com address. Google receives your IP address, the address of our page and details about your browser and device; YouTube may also use cookies or similar technologies on your device. We load the video only because you explicitly request it (Section 25(2) No. 2 TDDDG). The legal basis is our legitimate interest in showing you the video at your request (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Google may also transfer the data to the USA. Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, for which an adequacy decision of the European Commission exists (Art. 45 GDPR). How Google uses the data is described in Google's privacy policy.

Contact by email

When you contact us by email, we process your details – such as your name, contact details and the content of your message – to handle your request. If it concerns a contract or an order, the legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR; for other enquiries, it is our legitimate interest in answering you (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Providing your details is voluntary; without them, however, we cannot answer you.

Our mailbox is run by IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany, in data centres in Germany.

We delete your request as soon as it has been dealt with. We keep it longer only where the law requires it – for example six years for business letters under § 147 AO (German Fiscal Code).

Your Rights

Under the GDPR, you have the right to:

  • access the data stored about you (Art. 15)
  • rectification of inaccurate data (Art. 16)
  • erasure of your data (Art. 17)
  • restriction of processing (Art. 18)
  • data portability (Art. 20)
  • object to processing (Art. 21, see below)

Simply contact us, for example by email at johann@schopplich.com. We do not use automated decision-making or profiling.

You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). The authority responsible for us is the Saxon Data Protection and Transparency Commissioner, Postfach 11 01 32, 01330 Dresden, Germany, www.datenschutz.sachsen.de.

Right to Object

Where we process data on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), you may object to this processing at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation (Art. 21(1) GDPR). We will then no longer process the data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.